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Aquanatal class
Not like last time.
I arrived early - very early - so that I had time to settle Linnea into the creche. She left me happily and went to play as soon as we arrived and I let her out of the buggy. I filled in the paperwork and showed them her snack box. Ordinarily they offer the children squash and a biscuit but I couldn't allow the biscuits as they didn't have the pack with the ingredients.
Then I went and changed and got into the pool and swam. All on my own. For ten minutes, maybe longer. Gradually bumpy women showed up, one at a time, and one started a conversation - Australian, so perhaps the laws of British reserve didn't apply this time. A few people were bemoaning the fact that Baby Showers aren't common here; it's a lack I've often been grateful for. We all talked about names and how many weeks along we were and so on. I'm in the middle, dates-wise, though since I'm likely to give birth at 37 weeks and the rest are primi paras I expect I'll deliver before some of them do.
I do want a photograph of a pool full of pregnant women astride sausage-shaped floats bobbing up and down. I'd also like to know why exercise makes Braxton Hicks contractions ramp up. And how to keep the baby asleep while I'm trying to build up my calf muscles.
I arrived early - very early - so that I had time to settle Linnea into the creche. She left me happily and went to play as soon as we arrived and I let her out of the buggy. I filled in the paperwork and showed them her snack box. Ordinarily they offer the children squash and a biscuit but I couldn't allow the biscuits as they didn't have the pack with the ingredients.
Then I went and changed and got into the pool and swam. All on my own. For ten minutes, maybe longer. Gradually bumpy women showed up, one at a time, and one started a conversation - Australian, so perhaps the laws of British reserve didn't apply this time. A few people were bemoaning the fact that Baby Showers aren't common here; it's a lack I've often been grateful for. We all talked about names and how many weeks along we were and so on. I'm in the middle, dates-wise, though since I'm likely to give birth at 37 weeks and the rest are primi paras I expect I'll deliver before some of them do.
I do want a photograph of a pool full of pregnant women astride sausage-shaped floats bobbing up and down. I'd also like to know why exercise makes Braxton Hicks contractions ramp up. And how to keep the baby asleep while I'm trying to build up my calf muscles.
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